CVE-2015-7509: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted no-journal filesystem, a related issue to CVE-2013-2015.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.6.11

Published 2015-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.